>>1836882I've found that as long as you're content to stay in whatever gear the derailleur system wants to hang out in, those bikes are no worse than, and possibly better than the "practical" dutch style bikes that the YIMBY crowd is obsessed with, or, say, a shitty fixie. Sure they may be a pain to climb in but like the fixie crowd says, HFTU or something
As an added bonus, they make /r/bicycles/ seethe